I am a mother of a three-year-old child, she has a neurogenic bladder (as a newborn he had a hernia in the lumbosacral region). She is given pills, tests are done, she may have a catheter soon. However, no one can advise me on whether or not I should train him to sit on the potty. My son never feels the need, but maybe I should get him into the habit of sitting on the potty?
A child with a neurogenic bladder will not develop the habit of urinating properly due to, among other things, the lack of feeling that the bladder is full. Besides, the child's age - three years - is not conducive to this interruption. It is difficult to cooperate with a small child because he does not understand our translations. The first task for you and your doctors is to protect the kidney function, and later you put off trying or learning to teach your child to urinate independently.
Remember that our expert's answer is informative and will not replace a visit to the doctor.
Lidia Skobejko-WłodarskaSpecialist in pediatric urology and surgery. She obtained the title of European specialist in pediatric urology - fellow of the European Academy for Pediatric Urology (FEAPU). For many years he has been dealing with the treatment of bladder and urethral dysfunction, especially neurogenic vesico-urethral dysfunction (neurogenic bladder) in children, adolescents and young adults, using for this purpose not only pharmacological and conservative but also surgical methods. She was the first in Poland to start large-scale urodynamic tests, allowing to determine the function of the bladder in children. He is the author of many works on bladder dysfunction and urinary incontinence.
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